Mercedes ‘megaphone exhaust’ plan backfires

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The big metal trumpet placed on the cars' exhaust failed to have a significant effectHoch Zwei/Action Images

Kevin EasonMotor Racing Correspondent

Last updated at 9:33AM, May 15 2014

The search for the sound of success goes on. Mercedes tried out their
“megaphone exhaust” to try to rediscover some excitement in Formula One’s
aural experience and declared the big metal trumpet as a failure.

Nico Rosberg hopped out of his Mercedes at the test session at the Circuit de
Catalunya in Barcelona on Wednesday and gave his solemn verdict on the
makeshift engine amplifier.

“Unfortunately, it didn’t change anything,” he said. “There was nothing. It
was all the same.”

Oh dear. And so the sound technicians sent in by the FIA, the governing body,
packed up their microphones and